Asteroids And Comets Shower Mars With Organics
Life as we know it is based on water and organic compounds. Studying how water and organics form, evolve and move within our Solar System…
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A Closer Look At The Properties Of Sand
When we fill a bucket up with sand, flip it upside down, and remove the bucket to make a sand castle, we usually don’t think…
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The Challenge Of River Basin Monitoring
In the coming years, water management will face new challenges for several reasons. Global warming is reducing water availability, population growth is dramatically increasing global…
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Why We Get Frail And How To Reverse It
Aging is characterized by a gradual loss of cellular homeostasis and tissue function. This is a major cause of frailty in the elderly, which reduces their quality…
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The Use Of Mobile Health (mHealth) For Increasing Physical Activity And Fitness In Cardiovascular Disease Populations
Coronary artery disease (CAD) and peripheral artery disease (PAD) are diseases of atherosclerosis that have enormous clinical and economic burden in the United States. Adherence…
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Concentric Crater Fill: How Martian Craters Filled With Ice And Why It’s Still There
Many mid-latitude impact craters on Mars are filled to variable degrees with a combination of ice, dust, and rocky debris. Ring-shaped surface features visible in…
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Measuring The Water And Energy In An Alpine Peatland
Peatlands are wetlands with at least a 30-40 cm thick peat layer and are highly dependent on water. In these waterlogged, anaerobic soils, the dead…
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Wild Winds On Neptune
Neptune’s upper atmosphere contains some of the fastest winds in the solar system, reaching speeds upwards of 400 m/s (900 mph). How these blustering winds…
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Elusive Toxicity Of Silicon Carbide Nanomaterials
In the broadest sense, nanomaterial is defined as a structure that is within the size of 1-1000 nanometers, i.e., 10-9 – 10-6 meters, in two…
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Lead Iodide Nanosheets For Piezoelectric Energy Conversion And Strain Sensing
Harvesting ambient mechanical energy or sensing the mechanical signals based on nanomaterials for self-powered and flexible systems can provide potentially revolutionary advancements in energy technologies….
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Current Knowledge Of Lepidoptera Genomes And Future Directions
Science is often advanced with the development of new technologies. Since the sequencing of the first human genome, there has been much progress made in…
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